Re: xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting Getting Started
Paul Strefling wrote:
> The experimental drivers are very impressive, the seem to perform at
> their designated resolutions, regardless of what the VBios has to say.
Good. There's a new -rc4 driver (2:1.9.94-1) in experimental by the way.
> Anyhow, I am looking for somewhere/who/what to help me out with the
> following problem. Currently I am on #xorg on freenode but I am not
> getting very far:
The upstream guys are on #xorg-devel on irc.freenode.net. In case of a
Debian-specific problem, the Debian guys are on #debian-x on irc.oftc.net.
> In all of my attempts to get dual heads running (no xinerama) the
> configuration ends up with a cloned display; the full picture is
> properly represented on the 1440x900 LCD but the 1024x768 displays
> exactly 1024x768 of the upper right hand corner of the 1440x900
> display, it essentially behaves as a clone.
Upper right? I would have said upper left. Apart from that, it looks ok
to me. What did you expect?
The Xserver and Intel driver that you are running support XRandR 1.2. It
means that you can add/remove/resize/rotate/move heads at runtime with
the xrandr command (assuming you have xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-1). Note
that you will have to add a "Virtual" line in your xorg.conf to create a
virtual screen bigger than your physical heads and move the displays around.
By resizing, I mean changing the resolution of one head, not scaling a
display. You can't get the 1440x900 screen of your LCD to be scaled into
a 1024x768. If you want both heads to display the exact same image, they
have to use the same resolution (and not be moved in the virtual screen
with XRandR).
Brice
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